Saturday, October 23, 2010

Retired Priest sued

By Michael Miller, Wed., Sep. 29 2010 @ 7:00AM Comments (5) Categories: News Share9 0diggsdigg St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Fairfield, CT where Coleman worked at the time of the alleged abuse It's not just disgraced Latin American dictators who come to South Florida to bury their dirty pasts. Apparently, men of the cloth do as well.

Walter Philip Coleman, a retired priest now living in Pompano Beach, has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly molesting an altar boy in Connecticut in the 1970s. Lawyers for the plaintiff say they are concerned there might be more victims in the Miami area, where Coleman conducted mass in 1996.

"I don't think the Archdiocese of Miami was told about Coleman's background or the complaints against him," says attorney Jason Tremont. "That's the scary thing."

Mary Ross Agosta, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Miami, says Coleman was never employed here in Florida but volunteered in Broward County after retiring in 1996. Tht was about the time allegations of abuse arose in Connecticut.

Agosta does not know where, exactly, Coleman volunteered. She says her office has not received any complaints about Coleman, nor did it know of the allegations against him when it approved him to volunteer.

According to the lawsuit, filed yesterday, Coleman began sexually abusing altar boy Eric Sauers in 1972/ The abuse continued often in the priest's car. Coleman was then working at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Fairfield, Connecticut:

During the early 1970's. the defendant Coleman sexually assaulted, sexually battered, and sexually exploited the plaintiff, Eric Sauers thereby causing him injury and damage.

As a result thereof. the plaintiff suffered injuries of a serious and permanent nature in that he suffered physical injuries resultant from the sexual abuse and assault and severe emotional injuries including emotional distress, anxiety. frustration. disassociation, post-traumatic stress and permanent psychological scarring which were exacerbated and intensified by lack of timely treatment.Tremont says his office has represented five other plaintiffs who claim Coleman sexually abused them as well. Many have received settlements. His office has filed 80 lawsuits against the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, an organization Tremont claims has a record of hiding abuse.

"This same diocese kept a secret archive of complaints, destroying records so that priests could get a false second start somewhere else," he said. That secrecy may have kept the Archdiocese of Miami from preventing Coleman from later volunteering in Broward County.

Whether or not the Archdiocese of Miami knew of Coleman's record when the priest moved to Florida, current Archbishop Thomas Wenski has a responsibility to make sure the priest didn't do any more damage after he arrived, says Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).

"Bishop Wenski should act like a caring shepherd, not a cold-hearted CEO, and personally visit each parish where Coleman worked, begging anyone with information or suspicions of his crimes to call police," Blaine says. "That's what will truly help protect the vulnerable and heal the wounded."

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For over forty years, delusional and lying Christians have accused Satanists of committing all manner of atrocities toward children without any evidence. This is ironic considering the pervasive occurrence of prolonged systematic child abuse among the various Christian churches and denominations, and among others abusing positions of trust in the Jewish and Islamic Synagogues and Mosques.

Enough hypocrisy. We all know who the sick, deranged child abusers really are: the sanctimonious frauds of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions.

In fact, you could go so far as to say that child abuse IS a Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition!

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The 9th Satanic Rule of the Earth

"Do not harm little children."--Anton Szandor LaVeyFounder of The Church of Satan

From THE SATANIC BIBLE

"Under NO circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby! For centuries, propagandists of the right-hand path have been prattling over the supposed sacrifices of small children and voluptuous maidens at the hands of diabolists. It would be thought that anyone reading or hearing of these heinous accounts would immediately question their authenticity, taking into consideration the biased sources of the stories. On the contrary, as with all "holy" lies which are accepted without reservation, this assumed modus operandi of the Satanists persists to this day!

There are sound and logical reasons why the Satanists could not perform such sacrifices. Man, the animal, is the godhead to the Satanist. The purest form of carnal existence reposes in the bodies of animals and human children who have not grown old enough to deny themselves their natural desires. They can perceive things that the average adult human can never hope to.

Therefore, the Satanist holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing he can learn much from these natural magicians of the world."